Re: Rattling the Cage

aebrain wrote:

>I think what it really comes down to is that the critic should know 
>something about what he or she is criticising.
>
>Thus I don't consider myself to be qualified to criticise a team of 
>skydivers if they have an accident, or a team of oilriggers if they
appear 
>to cause a spill. I'll leave that to people who have at least jumped
out of 
>an aeroplane once, or someone who's a mineral geologist with field 
>experience. Because I know just enough about both areas to know that 
>there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
>
>It's not a moral or ethical issue, it's an issue of informed criticism
vs 
>ignorant interference.
>
>There are few areas of human endeavour - be it warfare, medicine, law, 
>engineering, or game design where unless you personally have some 
>experience "in the field" of attempting it, then your opinion is most 
>likely useless as a means of improving a situation.

Agreed.

2B^2

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